You know, collaboration as a good news story. The real success stories of our time are about good collaboration: businesses, sports teams, political campaigns, causes… 1 + 1 > 2. And yet, sometimes good collaboration isn’t enough for success. Sometimes you need chance on your side. Think of Felix Baumgartner’s past weekend of incredibleness, that […]
Cultural Gumbo: Collaboration on culturally-diverse teams
September 7, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Each day, week, month. I discover how much I still have to learn. After a recent workshop I gave on conflict management, to Canadian immigrants, at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, I’ve upped my belief that getting a grip on cultural differences matters a lot. And, it matters whenever, and wherever, you find yourself in […]
Managed Services: The evolution of legal services?
August 8, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Virtual. Managed Service. Value-based. These are things Axiom Law talk about and offer their clients. Its how they see themselves differentiated from the traditional law firm, as this schematic from their website shows: Futurist Ross Dawson (@rossdawson on Twitter) highlighted this profile of Axiom in Law Technology News on his weblog recently. Axiom Law is a global […]
Co-facilitation is a value creation opportunity
July 16, 2012 by · 2 Comments
Sometimes you just have to give up something to get something. Case in point: collaboration. We give up a bit of personal autonomy for an outcome that’s greater than what we might have achieved on our own. Bottom line is that we and the customer/client both get more value. I’ve been formally working as a […]
